Zoning Amendment (Regular) – Cherry Hills West MPUD Master Planned Unit Development – Veterans of Foreign Wars of US Major Francis E. Dade Post 4283 et al/ – A Rezoning Request from an A-R Agricultural Residential District to an MPUD Master Planned Unit Development District to Allow for the Maximum Development of 160 Single Family Detached Dwelling Units on 34.07 Acres
What the county recorded
Staff recommendation
Approval with Conditions
DispositionContinued
Approved to continue the item to the June 4, 2024 Board of County Commissioners meeting at 1:30 p.m. in Dade City.
The source document
The county’s agenda for Board of County Commissioners, May 7, 2024
The published PDF, as served by the county. This item is one entry in it.
The county’s minutes for Board of County Commissioners, May 7, 2024
The published PDF, as served by the county. This item is one entry in it.
This case, across meetings
PEG-24-7726 in full →PEG-24-7726 was taken up 4 times between Mar 12, 2024 and Jun 4, 2024, continued 4 times — this is appearance 3.
- Mar 12, 2024BoardP63▶Continued
- Apr 10, 2024BoardP46▶Continued
- May 7, 2024BoardP65▶Continuedthis item
- Jun 4, 2024BoardP59▶Continued
No appearance of this case has a final disposition in the minutes. It was continued, or the minutes do not dispose of it in writing — which is true for 24% of items.
What was said
Machine transcription of 9m of recording, with speaker names inferred from voice matching. 47% of 47 lines carry a name. It shows what was said, not what was decided, and both the words and the names can be wrong.
Mr. Chair, can we please move on to item P65?
This is our first consent item.
No. P sixty five is the zoning item regular Cherry Hills West, which I understand is also being continued. That's why.
Uh Mr. Chairman, this is was advertised for action um but has been requested to be continued by the applicant if any uh as is the normal process that I recommend you take public comment if the public cannot attend the June fourth meeting that this is being continued to. Um, if they choose to speak today, they waive their right to speak on the fourth.
Uh uh Mr. Chair, I do have two people that have signed up to speak on this item.
We have folks signed up to speak to this item?
Yes, sir.
We do?
We do.
Okay. Um Well did you you need you still need to do now? Um
Publication. Yes.
Item P uh sixty five was published in the Tampa Times on march twentieth, twenty twenty four, and by affidavit of certified mailings and site postings.
I'm going to read the item title. It's PEG 247726, a zoning amendment, Cherry Hills West MPUD, Master Planning Unit Development, Veterans of Foreign Wars of U.S. Major Francis E. Dade Post, 4283, and others. It's for a rezoning from an AR agricultural residential district to an MPUD Master Planning Unit Development District to allow for the maximum development of 160 single-family detached dwelling units on approximately 34.078. Makers on this item. There are ex parte communications for all commissioners. That one
is from May 3rd, 24, one is from January 23rd, 2024, and there's also ex parte with Commissioners Oakley and Commissioner Weightman, and those are from 1/12 of 2023. I will, to the extent that those have not been provided to the clerk's office, we will. do that after this meeting or during this the meeting's time. And the applicant has requested a continuance to the June 4th, 2024 Board of County Commissioners meeting at 130 in Dane City.
Okay. This item's gonna be continued to June 20th. June fourth, twenty twenty four. Do those that are signed up for this item do they wish to speak today or are they willing to wait and speak on June 4th?
I would rather do for that.
Okay if you speak today you cannot speak on on June 4th. You understand?
I just
Okay. Come forward.
Okay. Name and address for the record and if you've been sworn.
Yes, I have been. Andrew Renner, [address removed]. I'm going to read this to try to get through this in my three minutes. My wife and my kids could not come, but imploring you as a longtime Pasco resident not to approve Cherry Hills as it's been improved uh been requested in its current density. Um you know local leaders. Paul Renner is a family member of mine, Speaker of the House. I know Many of you know Walt Simpson, they've talked about recently, protecting our Florida land, developing it responsibly. When
we moved to Pasco County almost 20 years ago, we fell in love with the am the just the beautiful hillsides, we call it Tree City, uh open spaces, vibrant places. Everything we love about it, you know, we purchased the land and the home. Well we live on Cross Road. It was zoned AG residential. Everyone around us has property. No one has huge subdivisions around us. People have horses, chickens, livestock, different things. It really to
us is like Vedford Falls. It's like a wonderful life. Okay? The the high density that they're proposing with area doesn't fit into the area. Okay. You know, why why are we just giving to what the developers want? Why are we not requesting them to be lower density? People would still come, they would still love the area like we do. But it it just seems like when it's requested that that is what happens. You know, so to us, and and I speak for my wife, my family, my My kids, other neighbors who can't come
because it's in the middle of the day and and many of us are working. Right, is that they agree that this does not fit into the community and for us We're already there's already proposal on the other side of this so if this goes through we're going to be surrounded on three sides by hundreds of homes Hundreds of homes So we would ask at least we have setbacks, we have some type of a wall, some type of protection from the noise and the development. Very similar when in
Fort Kings Estate. Many of you probably know about that, right? Crime has gone up since then. We've even been personally affected by someone coming through our property to go to Fort King Estates. My wife didn't feel safe, and those are the kind of things that are happening because of that. We love Florida, specifically our area of Florida. We just asked that you would not vote as a currently being proposed. Trying to stay within my three minutes here. I'm cutting out most of this. So please do
not approve it, or if we do approve it, please reduce the density, make them put up some kind of buffers and protection for those of us that live here. We're the people that have voted, right, to put y'all in the positions, and I feel like you know we need to make sure that we're being represented as well, not just future residents of of this development and other developments of Pasco County.
Okay.
Any questions for me? I know I read that
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fast.
We don't talk back at
all. Oh you don't? Okay. No. Okay. Thank you.
Thank you. Anyone else to speak today on this item?
Hello, my name's Terry Saxon. I reside at [address removed]. I have to agree with the gentleman. Uh I too have
been sworn here. You've been sworn? Did you did
you get sworn in? Yes, I'll
be right back.
Okay. It just has to be on the record. Thank you. Yes. Sorry about that. You may start. This is kinda new to me, but Uh I've kind of been out of the loop because we were recovering from a hurricane at my business. But nevertheless, I agree a hundred percent with what he said. I told the city commission the same thing. People move up here and it's for our homes. We spent our last retirement dollar to be able to have a home that we can stay in and we have woods and Dade City's known as the tree tree city. Um and you have developers just coming in and and popping up anywhere and anywhere because it's all about The money
and again it's no consideration to the people that's already here. Cherry Hill specifically, I would like to know if there is an on the record, if there is an egress, ingress, other than the one coming up by the BFW on uh BFW Drive, because I've seen plans or something that are first if originally it was. fictitious and now it's being said that they're going to come across our easement for our neighborhood and our community, which
I would strongly recommend our s our request that you folks deny.
And that's really all I gotta say. It's it's just ongoing. Everywhere you turn it's it's coming up. I don't know if anybody's doing anything with the infrastructures. You know, I thought Zephyrhills was out of order. So, uh, you know, obviously that's a big issue and there's some people that they don't care what it takes to get it done, whether they tell the truth or not. But There's some of us seniors that have been here. We love our we love our property. We love being in Florida. We moved I was in Lakeland. I moved out of there 'cause it's gone nuts, but um Um Please consider the people around you. You know, if
they want to go in a pasture out there where it doesn't inflict on anybody, more power to you. But please consider the people that they're infringing on and uh encroaching on. When we we abide by the rules, we abide by the ordinances when we bought the property and intend to do so in the future and would really love if they did the same. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Does anyone in the audience wish to speak to this item?
Mr. Chair, I have no one on WebEx for this item.
Nobody on WebEx. Okay. Now I entertain a motion for continuance. Move it continued time circumstances. Second. We got a motion and a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Motion pass 3-0. Now what number are we on?